Procmail Problems

Matthew Benjamin msbenjamin12 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 17:28:27 UTC 2006


On 12/21/06, Sam Tregar <sam at tregar.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>
> > * ^Subject:*test
>
> That should be :.* not :* to match your example.  Your regular
> expression means "match a string that starts with Subject followed by
> zero or more colons and the string test."  Instead you want "match a
> string that starts with Subject: followed by zero or more characters
> and the string test.
>
> -sam
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Looks like that worked however now, I get this in my log file...

procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/myhome/.procmail/testing.rc"
procmail: Match on "^Subject:.*test"
procmail: Locking "in.testing.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "_ZdE.FIsiFB.mydomain.yickyack.com"
procmail: Lock failure on "in.testing.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=in.testing"
procmail: Opening "in.testing"
procmail: Error while writing to "in.testing"
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/myhome.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/myhome"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/myhome"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/var/spool/mail/myhome.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "myhome at 1920:/var/spool/mail/myhome"
>From myhome at mydomain.yickyack.com  Thu Dec 21 11:19:01 2006
 Subject: test
  Folder: /var/spool/mail/myhome


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